Electro

Electro (aka electro-funk or electro-boogie) is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling. Songs in the genre typically feature drum machines and heavy electronic sounds deprived of vocals in general, although if present, they are delivered in a deadpan manner, often through an electronic distortion such as vocoding. This is the main distinction of electro from previously prominent late-1970s genres such as disco and boogie, in which electronic sound was only part of the instrumentation rather than basis of the whole song. From its origins, the definition of the electro sound is the use of drum machines as the rhythmic ba ... Read More